New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

All mammals have skeletons, like this cat. Many animals have skeletons to support and protect their body and to help it move. The human skeleton is made of bones which grow as we grow. Your bones ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals -- an extinct family known as mixodectids -- and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree. "A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this ...

The San Diego Natural History Museum and SeaWorld San Diego have partnered with researchers at the Florida Atlantic University to scan the skeleton of a rare endangered marine mammal, the vaquita.

The researchers compared the new Mixodectes pungens skeleton to those of other placental mammals, including plesiadapiforms, euprimates, treeshrews, and colugos. This comparison illuminated its ...